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Squeezed into the breathless subway in the early morning, you can only rent a house in the suburbs, work overtime until late at night every day, and may not be able to afford to buy a house for a lifetime.
Life in a big city is like a game of elimination, people are always catching up, the city is always eliminated, people who walk slowly will not be able to eat, and people who can't run fast will be abandoned by this ruthless city, because there will always be a steady stream of people pouring into the city, some people leaving, some people staying.
And when we ask, living in a big city is so hard, why are people still reluctant to leave?
Most people still want to say, because of the dreams that have been, the ideals that have been, and the pursuits that will always be pursued.
Not wanting to compromise with reality, not wanting to concede defeat to cold-eyed people, this is a war with yourself, and it is also a way to prove yourself.
This is a game of the brave, a game of youth and sweat to break through.
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Over the years, the most obvious feeling for me is that more children in marginal areas have come out and gone to big cities to develop.
In this year's Heilongjiang selection examination, sufficient benefits were given: reimbursement of round-trip fares, getting off the bus to send a set of Bosideng down jackets, and taking the admission ticket can be a free taxi throughout the city of Harbin.
Such benefits have allowed us to see the thirsty northeast, and we have felt that more and more young people choose to develop in big cities.
And does coming to a big city mean success? Of course not.
There is a collateral brother in the family, who is about thirty-four years old, and has been working hard in Beijing since graduating from Chinese University.
No house, no car, no marriage, has been urged by the old man of the family many times to let him go home to develop, but he has not returned.
Perhaps they have become accustomed to life in big cities, or they may not be able to accept troublesome transportation, backward medical standards, time-consuming administrative efficiency, can not see the future level of economic development, and everything in their hometown is not enough to attract a person who has lived in a big city for more than ten years to come back.
Once I asked him, "Why do you have to develop in Beijing, my family is in my hometown, and it seems that it is good to come back." ”
He replied: "Many of my classmates have gone back after four or five years in Beijing, and everyone thinks that I will be forced to go home immediately, but I have not, and I think Beijing is full of hope." ”
He said to me emotionally: "Do you know, at that time just graduated from college, the salary has not yet arrived, I don't want to ask the family for money, after work to go back to the place to live need two dollars to take the subway, a steamed bun a dollar, at that time I was just three dollars all over the body, that day my dinner was the steamed bun, after that day I was really penniless, the feeling of emptyness after going home was really unforgettable, sometimes I can't help but cry secretly, now it's not easy to think about it, but I still survived." ”
Now he is already an executive of a company with a considerable income. But the biggest feeling he gave me was not how generous he was after returning home, but the difference in thinking, and his words and deeds were full of politeness, thoughtfulness, and quality that small country townspeople did not have.
Maybe he still can't buy a house and a car in Beijing, but he has gained a more wonderful life that his classmates who have returned home to develop cannot experience.
As long as you enjoy it yourself, others cannot dissuade it, and other practical factors are only ripening agents that promote their own growth.
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Big city means competition and challenges, compared to the ease and ease of small cities, in big cities need to continue to learn to avoid being eliminated, some people will be defeated by real factors, but some people will be more and more courageous, in a strange wilderness to break out of their own piece of the world.
Remember that Wang Baoqiang drifted north alone, living in the cheapest underground apartment at the beginning, eating steamed buns every day, running the same dragon suit. In the end, he succeeded, it was his hard work and perseverance, and it was his non-giving up.
I still remember that Song Dongye, a folk singer who sang "Anhe Bridge North" in the Beijing subway before, if he had not sung in the subway mouth of a big city or in a small village, it would be difficult to become famous, and how rare his talent would probably only be self-congratulatory.
Big cities are hard, but big cities mean more opportunities and opportunities, and they also mean more possibilities and developments.
Those young people who have insomnia in big cities, those dreamers who live in underground apartments in first-tier cities, and those who refuse to leave after suffering the hardships and hardships of life, they are not afraid of suffering, but they are afraid of failure.
Fail to live up to their ideals, live up to their hopes, and live up to the possibilities that they should have.
There are thousands of ways in life, choose how to live, choose what kind of life.
Some people's lives are the stability of the long stream, some people's lives are the stimulation of the waves, whether it is living comfortably, or struggling, responsible for their own choices, living their own lives, enjoying their own lives, it is enough.
—About the Author—
Wen Qing, who writes with heart, loves photography
If words can bring a little thought, accompany you through the long years